Figure 4: The extent of the human footprint within important areas for biodiversity.

The distribution of human footprint intensity bins across (a) biodiversity hotspots28, (b) high concentrations of threatened vertebrates and (c) high concentrations of all vertebrates. High concentrations are the 10% of land areas encompassing the highest global concentrations of either threatened vertebrates or all vertebrates29,30. Green represents areas with a human footprint score of 0, and warmer colours represent higher-pressure bins.